Character Creation Skipping : Fallout 3

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:14 pm

I've played this game before, enjoyed it and decided to purchase Game of the Year edition. Installed, started new game but after I choose the gender of the character the game sits in a loop and nothing else happens. It's not frozen, the keyboard works, and I can even make the baby cry by pushing the "E" key. But it never stops, even if I leave it alone for 30 minutes. I never get to name the character or proceed, just look up from the birthing table and listen to the annoying beep. I have uninstalled and re-installed the game about a dozen times and it never works. I guess I'm going to try and get a refund unless there is some way to actually create a character. Doesn't seem to be a hardware problem, no crashing and the graphics are fine. It just won't let me continue after the gender choice.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:26 pm

I've played this game before, enjoyed it and decided to purchase Game of the Year edition. Installed, started new game but after I choose the gender of the character the game sits in a loop and nothing else happens. It's not frozen, the keyboard works, and I can even make the baby cry by pushing the "E" key. But it never stops, even if I leave it alone for 30 minutes. I never get to name the character or proceed, just look up from the birthing table and listen to the annoying beep. I have uninstalled and re-installed the game about a dozen times and it never works. I guess I'm going to try and get a refund unless there is some way to actually create a character. Doesn't seem to be a hardware problem, no crashing and the graphics are fine. It just won't let me continue after the gender choice.

That's happened to me
please allow me to quote myself from another thread about this problem....

if you cannot go past the time your character is born you might need to manually adjust the graphic setting in the launcher for it has been my experience that the setting can be too low for the game to proceed. what works for me is in the default launcher's "Advanced...." settings Checkmark everything, set the drop down options all to high & put all sliders roughly in the middle. though you may want to adjust things to you own liking. but this works well on my 250 series card

hope that helps.

» Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:15 pm

I tried this trick and it worked. I was at my wit's end. Cheers mate!